His company, Gibson Square, recently agreed to publish a controversial novel about the Prophet Muhammad and his child bride, entitled The Jewel of Medina.

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The tale about a child bride sold into a Straits-Chinese family who beats the odds to become its powerful matriarch, has been performed many times in the past 15 years.

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Mahatma Gandhi, on a stop at the local station, makes an impassioned call for reform which inspires the child-bride and the now bereaved lover to flee the town together and accompany Gandhi to a brighter future.

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The artist says the bride and groom "looked really naive and natural, like a child's fantasy of a bride and groom".

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Norway saw a similar story last year, when its crown prince chose as his bride a single mother with a child by a convicted drug-user.

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